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Ellen the Wise's avatar

Chuck Schumer is trash. I’m 74 years old and for the past few years I have been saying again and again: it’s time to get rid of Chuck Schumer and his ilk. They lie, they betray, then they ask for our money.

I have not donated a penny to the DNC for the past few years. My $$ goes to AOC, Bernie, Jasmine Crockett, Jamie Raskin, Gavin Newsome, Tim Walz, and others who actually represent US and who fight like hell. These trashy Dems have just given the fascists more power to destroy America. May they rot.

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Lizajean's avatar

Same for me. I do NOT donate to DNC, I donate directly to the people you named & Progressive Justin Pearson from Memphis, who ultra maga Tn legislators expelled from state legislature for fighting for sensible gun control (his constituents sent him right back in a special election !!!🤣🤣🤣🤣) running against Steven Cohen & a few other local dems.

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

I always donate directly to the Progressive people that I like too. I don't do many PACS at all. Right now, I only give very small donations b/c I support Progressives from many states. I wish this Whole Party was Progressive!!! <3

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Lizajean's avatar

I feel you. But I work in East Tn, that is still a “wanna be confederate state”, like most of the former confederate states. Most of the construction workers (Building Trade unions mind you) are racist, misogynistic , anti-black, anti-immigrant, anti-technology, and anti-progressive.

The few that voted for Obama bc of Bush’s recession and bc Biden’s labor history, did so bc they truly believed:

“He’s (President Obama) just the face. Biden’ll be runnin’ thangs”.

As much as I loved VP Harris, I knew there was no way these racist misogynists would vote for a black AND female nominee who only had 3 months to present herself.

I believe Hillary lost more bc of being female than “Clinton fatigue”, at least in the former confederate states.

It makes me sick too.

Every construction project I’ve ever worked on, I have at least 1 white male walk up to me and announce, “Don’t no female got no business on the job site”.

But I say that to make the point that we democrats/progressives won’t win anything if we purge the moderates and older democrats that appeal to older more moderate & independent voters. Thats just a fact.

People can holler “sell out” all they want. I’m guessing they don’t live in a former confederate state.

WE MUST DREAM. But WE MUST BE STRATEGIC and PRAGMATIC too.

Dont believe me? Look at the margins by which trump won in the confederate states.

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, I don't know HOW you missed this, but Trump did NOT WIN this last election. He and Musk CHEATED and they even admitted it. Do you know who I really can't stand? The ones that PUT us here! And that is SCOTUS! The Dirty 1/2 Dozen on that court need to go to Prison! THEY are all in with Project 2025 and that's why Trump got IMMUNITY! This whole thing falls on them and the Heritage Foundation & Federalist Society. I'm telling you this b/c I'm correcting anyone that still thinks he won. Kamala had him beat with votes until Musk & Trump screwed with the election. I'm correcting folks b/c saying that he won is a LIE. The way we start to stop this is to stop spreading the LIES that Trump loves. Happy to know that you're a Progressive though!! Let's GET this show ON THE ROAD and WIN! :)

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Lizajean's avatar

We agree completely on SCOTUS, immunity, project 2025, the Federalist society, all of that.

I gotta tell you, living here in East Tn., working on federal construction sites thru the Building Trades unions, trump won Tn and all of the former confederate states. Most people cannot imagine the level of racism and misogyny in these states. Tn. Governor dressed up as a confederate soldier. The maga trifecta majority state legislature expelled 2 brilliant first term black male legislators when they advocated during a legislative break for sensible gun control after a mass shooting in Nashville. Their constituents sent them right back in the special election held to replace them 🤣🤣🤣🤣!!! You can watch the expulsion hearing if you google “Tennessee Three”. The racists couldn’t find an actual reason to expel them so they went with failure to adhere to protocol 🙄. The 3 were Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson. Gloria didn’t speak very much during the hearing and missed expulsion by one vote. The “Justin’s” lit it up!!!! Sometimes I listen to their speeches just for inspiration. Representative Pearson is running for Congress now against incumbent democrat Steve Cohen- who is a really great guy, progressive, almost always votes the right way, but he just doesn’t have very long coat tails anymore. Representative Pearson will galvanize all of Tennessee. He is firebrand progressive.

Every construction job I have ever worked on started on the first day with a white male walking up to me and proclaiming that females had no place on the job site.

I worked in politics for about 10 years several careers ago. I can absolutely tell you that trump won the confederate states.

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Italien's avatar

I refuse to send the jerk DNC anything!!! Why the hell would we?

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Dottie Breslin's avatar

I have added Pritzker to my list. Otherwise, I' m with you.

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Pamela Fender's avatar

Newsom. No E at the end of his last name

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pete's avatar

You are an idiot

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Heather B's avatar

He's been in the government for 50 years. What does that tell us?

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pete's avatar

That he knows what the fuck he is doing

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SueJ's avatar

Same age and your kindred spirit on this!

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Ron Nichols's avatar

I'm so pissed I could spit. Do those Dem defectors really think the MAGA GOP will keep their word? Giving up the high ground for the promise of a vote? Spineless motherfuckers!

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Lois Henry's avatar

No. They don’t think they’ll keep their word. They know they won’t. These aren’t naive, stupid people. That makes it even worse.

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

Bingo!

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Tina's avatar

100% agree, I am so freakin pissed at the Dems for caving I couldn't even watch cable news today. Disgraceful. They will regret this at midterms.

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pete's avatar

Grow up bitchcunt

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pete's avatar

Nobody caved

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Tina's avatar

8 Dems caved!!

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pete's avatar

Whayt the fuck do you mean by caved?? Politics is not worth shutting down government when Schumer kept it open last year, he was a bum when h e opens it, he is a bum, YOU PEOPLE ARE FUCKED UP

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pete's avatar

You people are fucked

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Jane in NC's avatar

Called every one of the Disgraced Eight, then left the democratic party. I'm now officially an Indie. I will not stand by a party that won't stand up for the American people. Done. Bye. And fuck Chuck.

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Sue D's avatar

I'll be doing the same. They just did to the America what Trump did in his recent AI video - shat on the country. Shat on the non-millionaires and billionaires. Shat on the working class and the straggling remnants of the middle class. I'm done allying myself with a party that blows all of its political capital, repeatedly. They work for themselves, not the people they represent.

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Laura G's avatar

🎯

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Coco's avatar

you know what…. seems odd I never considered it but I’m going to officially leave Democratic party registration and go Independent. If we could get a wave of that action that may wake up these assholes. And it’d surely send a signal that the Democratic party needs to change same as GOP/MAGA. Old school party politics need to be gone and left to the history books.

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Delores Gilchrist's avatar

I’ve been proud of being a lifelong Democrat. Now I’m considering becoming an independent. My party has so disappointed me.

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Joan F's avatar

Feeling likewise Delores. This is maddening.

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Joan Wiersma's avatar

Make sure that where you live allows you to vote in the midterms if you switch to Independent. I live in FL and must stick to one of the parties in order to be allowed to vote. I was going to do what you're talking about, but did NOT want to be prohibited from voting in midterms.

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Joan F's avatar

Yes good point. I will stick with being a dem until then at least because otherwise I wouldn't be able to vote . I did write to all of the senators involved and Schumer about my disappointment....can't give up...take care Joan.

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Laura G's avatar

Yes! Same here. Great points. 👌😊

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Gigi Flor's avatar

Never committed to any party (it’s not required in my state for voting in the primaries - you just choose one ballot when you vote).

Besides it’s the policies that matter not the labels.

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Coco's avatar

Exactly.

I’m looking into refs in my state asap.

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Coco's avatar

And the money I dedicated to support many key elections (would do it again) but jeez, we need a plan !

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Jane in NC's avatar

We need a plan, indeed. After last November, I stopped supporting the national party and the house and senate reelection committees. They're useless. I will only support those candidates whose values and positions align with my own.

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Italien's avatar

I am heading in that direction as well. I’m convinced it’s straight up corruption. Meet the new (2010) Citizens United corruption, same as the old corruption…

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Jane in NC's avatar

Corruption? Cowardice? Beltway group think? It all amounts to the same things, doesn't it? Protect their institutional standing not the people.

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Italien's avatar

Can’t say you are wrong!! 👍🏼

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Jane in NC's avatar

Good luck with your decision, Italien!

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Italien's avatar

Thanks Jane.. I was so pissed off today, I was metaphorically banging my head against the wall..

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Jane in NC's avatar

You're not alone.

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Angie's avatar

The entire DNC money machine knew they were going to do this, but they manipulated their voters the same as MAGA does. No vote before the elections, and a hope that we’ll forget before the midterms. Ken Martin is a snake.

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Joe English's avatar

I absolutely must disagree that new Chair Ken Martin has done nothing. The DNC has been highly supportive in the wins this year. His next priority is Aftyn Behn in the special election in TN-07. That seat could be flipped to Dems.

Also Martin released a statement reaffirming his support for the Senators who voted against this:

https://x.com/kenmartin73/status/1987703571731689523?s=201

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erosion oli's avatar

They're certainly not stupid but they are dirty as hell...

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Italien's avatar

Yup.👍🏼

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Erin Momola's avatar

Note 3: As a Lions fan just saying we travel heavy. There were LOTS of Lions fans there joining in the boos!

And also, how unsurprising that “no politics in sports” only applies to a Black athlete kneeling for social justice but not the fucking so-called “president” being “interviewed” DURING THE THIRD QUARTER ( which they so-conveniently announced 50 minutes into the game, likely because they knew people wouldn’t tune in if they knew ahead of time). We had to watch on mute for over half the third ( I know first world problem) which had no commentary anyway due to 1. letting trump ramble 2. announcers’ taking turns sucking up to/off trump. Imagine if they interviewed Biden and let him do commentary😜

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Laura G's avatar

The boos gave me such happiness, fleeting though it was after then learning about the douche Dems.

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Frank's avatar

What is your opinion of Amon-Ra doing the Trump double penis pull dance after he scored a touchdown? Was he doing a parody or is he a fan of old Fatso?

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Erin Momola's avatar

I was unhappily surprised. He posted essentially that he did it because the president was there and he didn’t know when the president would be there again so that’s why he did it. Apparently he’s made fun of trump on his podcast, so I think it was just a poor choice of clowning around, especially given that trump was given all that free airtime later, which has NEVER been done before.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

I cannot bring myself into affinity with farmers. They voted for Trump. No doubt farmers would be a lot smarter had they gone to Trump University. Let farmers eat soybeans. Soybeans are a great source of protein.

“All of us who are dismayed by the present state of the union, this is no time to give up,” Biden declared. “It’s time to get up. Get up now, get up.”

If you have become overwhelmed, rely on my 2 buckets to sanity. 2 buckets says stay in the fight. We are winning with a year to midterms. If you stay in, we will shut them down.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/too-much-two-buckets-to-sanity?r=3m1bs

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Fred Jonas's avatar

You know what, Mr Selfe, I commonly tell people (I'm a psychiatrist, and I do couple's therapy and marriage counseling, too) that in this country, which is relatively liberal, in the sense that you can do more or less whatever you want, the divorce rate is close to 50%. Of the other 50%, who don't get divorced, many of them should, because they're unhappily married. So I say that marriage is a dumb bet which most people are going to lose, one way or another.

The farmers had whatever issues they had, Donnie made them promises, and they made a bet (that he was right). You and I might say that no one in his or her right mind would bet that Donnie was ever right about anything. But I'm not a farmer, and maybe you're not, either. So we found out last week that many people now realize they made many dumb bets, and they're trying to correct them.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

The long term problem is that farmers and ranchers will continue the cycle over and over and over again. The absolutely WILL NOT vote blue under any circumstances. Some might move to the Center or become Independent, but they will not vote blue. The will continue to back the party that has no use for them, whine and cry for a bailout from our tax dollars, which they will get, and then turn around and vote red again and the cycle starts over.

Raised in the rural farmland/ranchland structure around these people, am related to them today and they still vote RED no matter what or how stupid, still take the hand outs from our tax dollars to bail them out when their votes don't net them the millions they thought they were promised in the last election. My brother, a rancher, is dead now, but that was his thinking all along - that any taxes for wealthy people were taxes on him, someone who would never become wealthy and died with very little money in the bank, had to pay back thousands in social security, and had a gross annual wage of about $46,000. But he voted RED anyway with what I can only surmise were delusions that he would become one of the people in those upper tax brackets some day and he didn't want to pay taxes on money he was never ever going to make. Yep, sounds stupid because it was stupid and still is stupid. But that's the way farmers and ranchers vote.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

"it's a free country." And the public/voters are free to make any mistakes they want. As you say, they can make them insistently and repeatedly.

Do not forget last week. Republicans can do what they like, because they're in the majority. They're too intoxicated to realize what 7M people at No Kings rallies, and last week, means.

You're saying that people in farm country never get it, and they never will. The rest of us do and will. Depending on what's left of this country by a year from now, we'll save them from themselves, and they'll criticize us for it.

One of Michael Moore's documentaries is "Sicko." It's about the disaster that is the American medical industry. At the end, he talks about some guy who has a website dedicated to hating Michael Moore, and talking endless shit about him. But the guy says his wife has cancer, medical costs are through the roof, and he will have to shut down his website. Moore sent him an anonymous check for $12K to keep it going. "It's a free country."

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Italien's avatar

Michael Moore’s stuff is great..it’s a free country to be as stupid as you wanna be..that dumbing down in public schools worked wonders. Generational dumbassedness. Since the government has no obligation to feed people (the church does, according to the saintly Rethugs) I’m guessing they don’t have an obligation to provide anything. Sick? Go die and die fast. As Alan Grayson (sp) said a millennium ago.

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Fred Jonas's avatar

All correct. It's a democracy, and the voters get what they want. If they want a government that's not obligated to them, and wants them to die, that's what they'll get. Dictatorships are the most efficient form of government, but the results aren't much better. At least now, the public/voters can wake the fuck up, and we'll have something better in the future. If we get there.

The alternative, and it's how this country got to be what it is in the first place, is a revolution. But we can't do that. As opposed as I generally am to the "Second Amendment," the right to keep and bear arms is already highly infringed, and the Amendment's stated purpose is to allow militias to function, to challenge over-reach by the federal government. To do that, militias would have to be armed as the federal government is armed. But almost all the arms that would be necessary are already illegal for civilian possession. We're not even close.

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Italien's avatar

Interesting and accurate …also, they had muskets!! Now we have police and sheriff’s departments, not militias. I don’t think they foresaw AR-15s. Tell me if this is accurate: I read that 70 percent of Americans do not own firearms..so, assuming that is true, the other 30 percent have literal armories! I personally know too many people over my long lifespan killed with their own firearm. It also, to me, affords killing at arm’s length, with no mano a mano, so the heat of a moment can be lethal in a split second. Ehhh…

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Gina Ellis's avatar

here in Canada rural people vote conservative (which these days is MAGA-lite)...far as I can figure from rural relatives, they resent city folk who run things while they, salt of the earth, do the actual work - but the system screws us all

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Interesting take on life in general - I can see it, but I disagree with it.

How many rural Americans drive cars, trucks, vans, SUVs? how many have farm equipment that runs on something other than pulled by horses? How many of them have homes built with modern materials, composite shingles on the roof, indoor plumbing, running water, heat that doesn't involve a chimney and chopped wood? How many have a stove to cook on that doesn't have to be stoked with wood? or a refrigerator? or a washer and dryer? how many rural folks have mini-appliances on their counters and drink coffee? What about their television, any computers or other devices, or the Internet? All that and more comes from the folks in the cities that are doing the work so they can live better, cleaner, more sanitary lives and live longer - and I didn't even touch on medical care.

See? They may not like the city folk, and they may think they are the salt of the earth and do everything, but unless they are out in the outback living in a log cabin with an outhouse and a well and no electricity, no internet, no nothing, then that doesn't wash.

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Gina Ellis's avatar

true - farmers that are left have big new trucks and all the stuff, and I’m old enough to remember outhouses, wood stove, gas lamps, growing their own groceries…but the old resentments live on

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Or are passed on. I grew up in a house with 1 pot bellied stove to heat the entire place. Our stove had to be heated up using wood, same with baking. In the Winter we had to use the outhouse because the pipes always froze, and we always had candles and kerosene lanterns. We had a garden in the summer, and canned food every fall. My family were hunters for deer and elk, and we butchered cattle, sheep, and pigs for meat. Yes, my parents had a car and a truck. Yes, we had electricity, plumbing and running water. But that was about all. No phone, a television that had rabbit ears.... I was raised in rural America on a ranch full of elders who hated democrats, and their grandchildren, great grandchildren and even great great grandchildren feel the same way. Yet they collected Social Security and used Medicare for the elder care, have taken advantage of health insurance plans, worked for someone in a city somewhere while standing in the rural yard decreeing that all Democrats should be shot.

I was the rebel. I left over 40 years ago when I discovered that "R's" don't want anyone but them to have anything and went to the city! And here I shall stay!

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Jamesina Hamilton's avatar

Tell this to the Turncoats!

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CyndiG11's avatar

Time to vote them all out! It’s LONG OVERDUE!

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Yeah... after we overwhelmingly showed these dumb asses that we had their backs to hold out for the ACA subsidies on Tuesday, they rolled over and played dead after careening the car off a 2,000 sheer cliff.

Next step if this all gets past the 60 vote threshold to close Debate, the simple majority to pass the Bill in the Senate and the Simple Majority to pass the bill in the House, the Government will re-open until January 20th when it will all happen all over again - unless the Senate and the House can pass the 2026 budget which takes 60 votes. The dumb asses actually killed the ACA subsidies because the MAGAs aren't going to support them in the "pitty vote" that was offered last night. Then the MAGAs have the photon torpedo loaded and ready to take out SNAP and Medicaid all over again after the 2026 Midterms.

We have to primary these Democrats and put people in power who are actually going to fight for us! I'm a Democrat, and I want the Democratic party to do better. I want the right person in the office, Democrat or Independent, or whomever, but they need to be willing to stand up and fight like hell, grab the wheel and keep the car on the road no matter what.

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@Bluesmurf

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B.B. Wood's avatar

Back Stabbing Traitors! Primary every one of these jerks & vote them out! These Democrats betrayed all the Americans who were counting on them to stand firm and keep fighting. More importantly, they betrayed the poor & disadvantaged.

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Delores Gilchrist's avatar

Chuck Schumer should have been retired long ago. He calls himself a moderate, I call him a coward and a traitor.

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Barryt's avatar

Trumpstein actually tried to get the fans at a fucking football game to recite an oath of loyalty to him (and his cabinet heads)? WTAF? I'm sure the press, especially Jake Tapper, are planning to write a book about this, right?

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Carolyn Enloe's avatar

I wondered who he was trying to swear in…I didn’t watch the game, and I am glad now that I didn’t. That is so gross. I’m very happy that the crowd responded appropriately!

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Ann Franklin's avatar

He sold us out. He needs to go!! IMO, he orchestrated this.

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Ajhview's avatar

I believe I’m done with the Dems…

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MB Kiefer's avatar

I was sorely tempted to say the same last night, but that's cutting off your nose to spite your face. No, I'm done with the Hateful Eight (or however many it is; last night I was seeing ten, today it's seven or eight). None of them will get another penny from me; nor will PACs that contribute to many candidates. I'll give to people who passed this test by *not* pissing away the only leverage Democrats had.

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Bluesmurf's avatar

Well, I'm not - because if I defect to become and Independent, then I have no party at all and nothing will get done to change the idiots running the Democratic party. I'm in it to win it and I want to be with other Dems to fight it out and make sure our party is truly for the people, not just some of our party. We are on a roll from last Tuesday, and 8 out of 262 Dems in Congress is miniscule - they can be taken out or at least corralled when they are outnumbered by more progressives. That's my goal... to primary the rotten ones and get more people in who are FOR THE People and will fight for what we all want and need.

Killing the Democratic party at this point allows the MAGAs to take complete control. I want the Democrats to be the party of the People, not just say they are! I'm going to fight on!

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@Bluesmurf

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Mone99's avatar

What now? Well, we adjust and keep fighting. They caved, we didn't. We'll get the Senate we deserve.

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Lynda's avatar

We need better leadership. Vote em out!!

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